china vs us who will win and why
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us because us is more powerful than china
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In a championship match, the stakes are always higher for the reigning champion trying to defend the title, compared to the contender, who has less to lose and more to gain with an upset win. Even when the match is a draw, there is more to lose for the champion in terms of status and position. In the U.S.-China great power tussle, it needs no explanation as to who is the defending champion and who is the contender for the top spot in the international system.
The United States has much to uphold to save the foundations of the post-war security and financial order that it engineered, the so-called liberal international order. From its old alliances and new partners in the Indo-Pacific to its long-running transatlantic alliances, from its hemispheric influence in the Americas to saving its assets in an uncertain Middle East and maintaining its diminishing returns in Africa, Washington has its hands full. Compared to trying to become the hegemon, being the hegemon and maintaining that status is a more difficult spot to be in.
China, on the other hand, has shown the ability and the intention to increasingly close its power gap with the United States, economically around the world, and militarily in its strategic backyard, the western Pacific. In the geopolitical hotspots of the South and East China Seas, Beijing seems to be putting into practice Sun Tzu’s stratagem of subduing the enemy without fighting. Without becoming involved a kinetic form of war, where U.S. military firepower would be currently hard to match, Beijing has attempted to militarize the geopolitical space in the western Pacific and make it costlier for the United States to stay the course.
The primary theater for power projection and tensions, essentially China’s regional perimeter, conjures up what offensive realists like John Mearsheimer have spoken of: the threat of a peer competitor, another regional hegemon, to U.S. primacy. China can play a longer game of gradually chipping off the United States’ patience, and undermining the durability of the U.S. alliance system in the region. While U.S. President Donald Trump’s “America First” sloganeering and his maverick behavior with allies and partners did send stress signals related to American commitments and reliability as a security guarantor in the region, the power game is more structural and precedes the Trump era.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic struck China, before spreading fast and furiously across the world, affecting the United States severely, and bringing U.S.-China relations to a new low, the two countries were fighting a vicious trade war that remains largely unresolved. At a time when the U.S. is still reeling from the pandemic and the challenges of reopening its economy, China is projecting itself as a country that has put the pandemic behind and is moving its economy ahead.